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From the Keyboard of Surly1 Originally published on the Doomstead Diner on August 5, 2013 Discuss this article here in the Diner Forum.   First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out– Because I was not a Socialist...

The release of America’s only prisoner of war in Afghanistan in a trade for five senior Taliban commanders in U.S. custody was over in minutes Saturday. But it followed 31/2 years of secret on-and-off negotiations that produced far less than the...

From DG: 1) The second term agenda The editors of the New York Times, put forward The Foreign Policy Agenda for President Obama's second term. There are two items I'd like to focus on. As for the Arab Spring countries, Mr. Obama has been wise to recognize...

BREAKING OVERNIGHT: CNN: Moscow airport: Snowden to meet with human rights group American intelligence leaker Edward Snowden is due to meet with a human rights group Friday, the press service for Moscow's Sheremetyevo International Airport said. The...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Science now has the tools to slash the spread of HIV even without a vaccine – and the U.S. is donating an extra $150 million to help poor countries put them in place, the Obama administration told the world’s largest...